Working with Healthcare Databases

Documentation for package ‘healthdb’ version 0.3.1

bind_source	Row-bind a list of data.frames or remote tables with variable selection and renaming
build_def	Build case definition function calls
collapse_episode	Group records no more than n days apart as episodes
compute_comorbidity	Compute Elixhauser Comorbidity Index
compute_duration	Compute duration between two dates
cut_period	Cut the time period in one row into multiple rows by interval
define_case	Identify diseases/events from administrative records
exclude	Remove rows based on conditions or another data set
execute_def	Execute parameterized case definitions
fetch_var	Get variables from multiple tables with common ID columns
identify_row	Identify rows with a match
if_date	Interpret if any n elements drawn from a date vector could be some days apart within some time span
lookup	Find value corresponding to the input vector using a look-up table
make_test_dat	Make test data
pool_case	Pool qualified clients from results of multiple definitions
report_n	Report number of distinct value in a column across data frames
restrict_date	Remove or flag groups failed to meet conditions based on dates
restrict_n	Remove or flag groups with n less than some number